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Knowledge Bases

"Knowledge Bases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Collections of facts, assumptions, beliefs, and heuristics that are used in combination with databases to achieve desired results, such as a diagnosis, an interpretation, or a solution to a problem (From McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Knowledge Bases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Knowledge Bases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007
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